For better or worse, nothing stays still. Gail Rebhan knows that well, and this first museum retrospective explores the many ways she reconfigures the time-slicing medium of photography. Over the course of four decades, Rebhan has worked with and against photography’s norms compelling us to confront change and repetition as the primary cycles of life.

Rebhan’s work commemorates her passage from young adult to mother of two sons, to caregiver of a once-dynamic immigrant father as he declines in old age, to her forthrightly activist present. Her output oscillates between social and domestic personal experience—namely through explorations of identity and the female body—and pressing issues in the world around her, such as the harnessing her photographic skills to support a largely African American community group working to salvage a historic Black cemetery. Throughout her practice, Rebhan makes strong use of text—sometimes as wry captions, sometimes as embedded excerpts from first-person interviews and historical records.